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Critical AI On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

It’s weird how UK unis are now encouraging academics to use AI (parking climate concerns). Unis are soon going to be one AI model talking to another “But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically”

olivia.science/ai

Gaza's healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with the apparent deliberate targeting of health-care infrastructure and personnel, has highlighted a profound challenge to the global medical community. ...

‘Medicine is more than science—it is a moral duty. And when that duty is under threat, silence becomes betrayal’ @thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Every year when I teach the work of Stuart Hall, I ask my undergrads who has heard of Hall before? This year is the first year in a long time when a gaggle of hands went up. This bodes well for these times

Strangely I came across this again today! From his book on how Thatcher exploited discontent with Labour's record in office & with aspects of the welfare state to devise a potent authoritarian, populist ideology.'

This could have been written yesterday!

Building Brave and Beautiful Movements - Healing Justice Ldn Movement-making is returning to our native state of deeply belonging to one another. In the midst of crisis, trauma, humanity and remarkable creativity - we

Practicing Community, Untraining Commodity
‘We are going to need to practise being in community with one another more than ever for our bold and brave movements’

healingjusticeldn.org/methodology/...

Meeting Stuart Hall We have come together as black feminists to commemorate Stuart Hall who died on 10 February, 2014. ~ Sara Ahmed, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Yasmin Gunaratnam,Vera Jocelyn, Patricia Noxolo, Pratibha Parma…

Meeting Stuart Hall, I love these tributes, "Stuart Hall was a welcome reminder of the possibility of academia’s better self, the one where we remember to be kind and welcoming and to nurture new ideas and people" @writersofcolour.bsky.social mediadiversified.org/2014/02/14/m...

Leaders in Middle East and Europe welcome Trump's Gaza peace plan Donald Trump says if Hamas rejects the plan, Israel will have US backing to "finish the job of destroying the threat" from the armed group.

Settler colonialism’s rebranding

www.bbc.com/news/article...

How To Do Social Research With...

This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter

www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Thanks to @socispal.bsky.social for highlighting this gem of a resource “why boycott Israeli universities?”

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“Faculty and staff (including PhD students, non-research staff, and emeriti) formally associated with any EU/EEA, Swiss or UK institution of higher education and research are welcome to sign the Declaration”

No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine @socispal.bsky.social

uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Please share: final 7 hours ‼️

One link, six families and a camp, support every week. Now, the giving circle is helping Mai’s, Ghadeer’s, and Akram’s families urgently flee north Gaza.

Every dollar is hope to survive the next minute of this hell. Nothing less. 792/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

SISP Statements SISP letter to the British Sociological Association 18th September 2025 On the 18th September 2025, the SISP collective sent the letter below to the President of the BSA (Professor Rachel Brooks) a…

A letter from @socispal.bsky.social to British Sociological Assoc, asking them to take a clear stance on the ongoing Palestinian genocide, the proliferating racist violence of Zionism & the repression of pro-Palestinian solidarity. BSA members please support socispal.wordpress.com/sisp-stateme...

University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.

Happy Monday to all ‘at risk’ SHAPE scholars ‘Higher education regulators should monitor subject provision through an ‘at-risk’ regional subject register and funding for ‘at risk’ subjects’

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

“Follow the banks…”

Judith Butler on the legal & moral shambles & capitulation at Berkeley ‘Lucky that I still have my books. But it cannot be utterly foolish to resist injustice when you so clearly see it, as, I presume, you must’

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👋 Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social have joined Bluesky

Give them a follow for resources, events and upcoming actions calling on sociological professional bodies to us their platforms to stand with Palestinian

If you want to get involved email socispal@proton.me

Sociologists In Solidarity with Palestinians

Welcome to Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social follow for resources & upcoming actions “calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to us their platforms to stand with Palestinians”

socispal.wordpress.com

If your are teaching on immigration/racism, this book is open access & includes short "living research" chapters that can be used in teaching.
Based on research on govt immigration campaigns that included the "Go Home" vans
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

After 2 years the UN finds that Israel has committed genocide "The Commission recommended that Member States cease the transfer of arms and other equipment that may be used for the commission of genocidal acts to Israel"

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against
the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis
Against Complicity (March 2025)
www.brismes.ac.uk/files/docume...

“I hold the days

and they crumble in my hands

like stale bread in a starving mouth.

Each morning

a weary replica of the last,

as if time cycles, then sleeps again.

I endure—

not out of strength,

but because even collapse has grown dull”

“Where are these weapons coming from that are killing us and those we serve? They don't come out of nowhere."

www.trtworld.com/article/f053...

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war Educational bodies from Europe to South America are boycotting Israeli institutions, though Universities UK said it did not support the action

However, few institutions in the UK, France and Germany have announced they are cutting links Israeli academia, with Universities UK (UUK) saying it does not support an academic boycott’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

TODAY SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER,

🚂 Fascists will be travelling on the same trains.

✍🏽Five Key Messages:
- No Comment!
- No Personal Details!
- No Caution!
- No Duty Solicitor!
- Ask “Under What Power”!

📖 Recommending reading: a protesting guide
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Migrant Futures Institute Redefining migration studies through creative inquiry and civic engagement.

A new Migrant Research Institute at Goldsmiths is looking for an academic director www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...

US manhunt under way for killer of Charlie Kirk after Utah school shooting Kirk was a regular presence on cable TV where he leaned into the culture wars and heaped praise on President Trump.

Leading biohacker bros (completely silent about the Palestinian genocide) now talking about how sick the world is with Kirk’s murder. Makes sense

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Uncommon Sense: Cities, with Romit Chowdhury

A new podcast & great listen on cities @thesociologicalreview.org with Romit Chowdhury

thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...